AMD Stretches Coverage of the CPU Market, Intel's Share Falls

Even though Intel still has more than 80% of the worldwide central processing unit market, Advanced Micro Devices has been eroding that stake little by little.

In this case, it looks like AMD got its share to grow to 18.8%,which is 0.5% more on-year, even if it fell from the 19.4% of the second quarter.

Then again, the reason for the drop was not customer disinterest but chip shortages caused by Llano yield problems at Globalfoundries.

Meanwhile, Intel's share grew from the 79.9% in Q2 to 80.3%.

With the disappointing Bulldozer performance, solving the Llano 32nm production issues is very important now, especially with the holidays coming in.

As the foundry tries to get over whatever difficulties it has, AMD has been focusing on the mobile market, contributing to an average CPU price rise to $107 (77.61 Euro).